Stephen Mumford (mumford-s)

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Anjum, Rani Lill and Mumford, Stephen. 2011. “Spoils to the Vector: How to Model Causes if You are a Realist about Powers.” The Monist 94(1): 54–80.
Anjum, Rani Lill and Mumford, Stephen. 2017a. “Mutual Manifestation and Martin’s Two Triangles.” in Causal Powers, edited by Jonathan D. Jacobs, pp. 77–89. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198796572.001.0001.
Anjum, Rani Lill and Mumford, Stephen. 2017b. “Emergence and Dependence.” in Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation, edited by Michele Paolini Paoletti and Francesco Orilia, pp. 92–109. New York: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315638577.
Anjum, Rani Lill and Mumford, Stephen. 2018a. Causation in Science and the Methods of Discovery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198733669.001.0001.
Anjum, Rani Lill and Mumford, Stephen, eds. 2018b. What Tends to Be. The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality. London: Routledge.
Anjum, Rani Lill, Noer Lie, Svein Anders and Mumford, Stephen. 2013. “Dispositions and Ethics.” in Powers and Capacities in Philosophy. The New Aristotelianism, edited by John Greco and Ruth Groff, pp. 231–247. London: Routledge.
Briceño, Sebastián and Mumford, Stephen. 2016. “Relations all the Way Down? Against Ontic Structural Realism.” in The Metaphysics of Relations, edited by Anna Marmodoro and David Yates, pp. 198–217. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735878.001.0001.
Giannini, Giacomo and Mumford, Stephen. 2021. “Formal Causes for Power Theorists.” in Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation, edited by Ludger Jansen and Petter Sandstad, pp. 87–105. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780429329821.
Mumford, Stephen. 1994a. “Dispositions, Supervenience, and Reduction.” The Philosophical Quarterly 44(177): 419–438.
Mumford, Stephen. 1994b. “Dispositions, Concepts, and Ontologies.” in Language and Related Matters, edited by H. Wallis, pp. 43–45. Leeds: Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds.
Mumford, Stephen. 1995a. “Ellis and Lierse on Dispositional Essentialism.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73: 606–612.
Mumford, Stephen. 1995b. “Dispositions, Bases, Overdetermination and Identities.” Ratio 8: 42–62.
Mumford, Stephen. 1996. “Conditionals, Functional Essences and Martin on Dispositions.” The Philosophical Quarterly 46(182): 86–92.
Mumford, Stephen. 1998a. Dispositions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259823.001.0001.
Mumford, Stephen. 1998b. “Laws of Nature Outlawed.” Dialectica 52(2): 83–102.
Mumford, Stephen. 1999. “Intentionality and the Physical: A New Theory of Disposition Ascription.” The Philosophical Quarterly 49(195): 215–225.
Mumford, Stephen. 2001. “Realism and the Conditional Analysis of Dispositions: Reply to Malzkorn (2000).” The Philosophical Quarterly 51(204): 375–378.
Mumford, Stephen. 2002. “Essences, Kinds, and Laws of Nature [review of Ellis (2001)].” Metascience 11(3): 324–328.
Mumford, Stephen. 2003. Dispositions. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. First edition: Mumford (1998a), doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259823.001.0001.
Mumford, Stephen. 2004a. Laws in Nature. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy n. 18. London: Routledge.
Mumford, Stephen. 2004b. “L’état des lois.” in La structure du monde: objets, propriétés, états de choses. Renouveau de la métaphysique dans l’école australienne de philosophie, edited by Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, pp. 235–262. Recherches sur la philosophie et le langage. Paris: Librairie philosophique Jean Vrin.
Mumford, Stephen. 2005a. “The True and the False [critical notice of Armstrong (2004)].” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83(2): 263–269.
Mumford, Stephen. 2005b. “Kinds, Essences, Powers.” Ratio 18(4): 420–436.
Mumford, Stephen. 2005c. “Laws and Lawlessness.” Synthese 144(3): 397–413.
Mumford, Stephen. 2006a. “The Ungrounded Argument.” Synthese 149(3): 471–489.
Mumford, Stephen. 2006b. “Function, Structure, Capacity.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 37(1): 76–80.
Mumford, Stephen. 2007a. David Armstrong. Philosophy Now. Stocksfield: Acumen Publishing.
Mumford, Stephen. 2007b. “Filled In Space.” in Dispositions and Causal Powers, edited by Max Kistler and Bruno Gnassounou, pp. 67–80. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Mumford, Stephen. 2007c. “A New Solution to the Problem of Negative Truths.” in Metaphysics and Truthmakers, edited by Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, pp. 313–330. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis n. 18. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, doi:10.1515/9783110326918.313.
Mumford, Stephen. 2007d. “Negative Truth and Falsehood.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 107: 45–71.
Mumford, Stephen. 2008. “Metaphysics.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 26–35. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Mumford, Stephen. 2009a. “Laws and Dispositions.” in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, edited by Robin Le Poidevin, Peter M. Simons, Andrew McGonigal, and Ross P. Cameron, pp. 471–479. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203879306.
Mumford, Stephen. 2009b. “Passing Powers Around.” The Monist 92(1): 94–111.
Mumford, Stephen. 2009c. “Ascribing Dispositions.” in Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, edited by Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf, and Karsten R. Stueber, pp. 168–185. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Mumford, Stephen. 2009d. “Powers and Persistence.” in Unity and Time in Metaphysics. Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 26-28, 2007 in Berlin, Germany, edited by Ludger Honnefelder, Edmund Runggaldier, and Benedikt Schick, pp. 223–236. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Mumford, Stephen. 2009e. “Causal Powers and Capacities.” in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies, pp. 265–278. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.001.0001.
Mumford, Stephen. 2012. Metaphysics. A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mumford, Stephen. 2013a. “Ways of Watching Sport.” in Philosophy and Sport, edited by Anthony O’Hear, pp. 3–15. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 73. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mumford, Stephen. 2013b. “The Power of Power.” in Powers and Capacities in Philosophy. The New Aristotelianism, edited by John Greco and Ruth Groff, pp. 9–24. London: Routledge.
Mumford, Stephen. 2014a. “Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian Themes.” in Efficient Causation. A History, edited by Tad M. Schmaltz, pp. 317–340. Oxford Philosophical Concepts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199782185.001.0001.
Mumford, Stephen. 2014b. “The Aesthetics of Sport.” in The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport, edited by Cesar R. Torres, pp. 180–194. Bloomsbury Companions. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Mumford, Stephen. 2015. “Metaphysics and Sport.” in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport, edited by Mike McNamee and William J. Morgan, pp. 274–284. Routledge International Handbooks. London: Routledge.
Mumford, Stephen. 2016. “Armstrong on Dispositions and Laws of Nature.” in Metaphysics and Scientific Realism. Essays in Honor of David Malet Armstrong, edited by Francesco Federico Calemi, pp. 161–176. EIDE – Foundations of Ontology n. 9. Berlin: de Gruyter, doi:10.1515/9783110455915.
Mumford, Stephen. 2017. “Powers.” in Handbook of Mereology, edited by Hans Burkhardt, Johanna Seibt, Guido Imaguire, and Stamatios Gerogiorgakis, pp. 442–444. Analytica: Investigations in Logic, Ontology, and the Philosophy of Language. München: Philosophia Verlag, doi:10.2307/j.ctv2nrzj8n.
Mumford, Stephen. 2018. “Laws and Their Exceptions.” in Laws of Nature, edited by Walter R. Ott and Lydia Patton, pp. 205–220. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198746775.001.0001.
Mumford, Stephen. 2021a. Absence and Nothing: The Philosophy of What There Is Not. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198831532.001.0001.
Mumford, Stephen. 2021b. A Philosopher Looks at Sport. A Philosopher Looks At. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781108992961.
Mumford, Stephen and Anjum, Rani Lill. 2010. “A Powerful Theory of Causation.” in The Metaphysics of Powers. Their Grounding and their Manifestations, edited by Anna Marmodoro, pp. 143–159. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 2. London: Routledge.
Mumford, Stephen and Anjum, Rani Lill. 2011a. Getting Causes from Powers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695614.001.0001.
Mumford, Stephen and Anjum, Rani Lill. 2011b. “Dispositional Modality.” in Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft, edited by Carl Friedrich Gethmann, pp. 468–484. Deutsches Jahrbuch Philosophie n. 2. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, doi:10.5840/djp2011231.
Mumford, Stephen and Anjum, Rani Lill. 2012. “Causal Dispositionalism.” in Properties, Powers and Structures. Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, edited by Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey, pp. 101–118. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 5. New York: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203124482.
Mumford, Stephen and Anjum, Rani Lill. 2013a. Causation. A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mumford, Stephen and Anjum, Rani Lill. 2013b. “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility.” in Causation and Responsibility, edited by Benedikt Kahmen and Markus Stepanians, pp. 219–238. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Mumford, Stephen and Anjum, Rani Lill. 2013c. “Reply to McKitrick (2013) and to Marmodoro (2013).” Metascience 22.
Mumford, Stephen and Anjum, Rani Lill. 2014a. “A New Argument Against Compatibilism.” Analysis 74(1): 20–25.
Mumford, Stephen and Anjum, Rani Lill. 2014b. “The Irreducibility of Dispositionality.” in New Scholasticism Meets Analytic Philosophy, edited by Rafael Hüntelmann and Johannes Hattler, pp. 105–128. Neunkirchen-Seelscheid: Editiones Scholasticae.
Mumford, Stephen and Anjum, Rani Lill. 2015. “Freedom and Control: On the Modality of Free Will.” American Philosophical Quarterly 52(1): 1–11.
Mumford, Stephen and Anjum, Rani Lill. 2018. “Powers and Potentiality.” in Handbook of Potentiality, edited by Kristina Engelhard and Michael Quante, pp. 261–278. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mumford, Stephen and Tugby, Matthew, eds. 2013a. Metaphysics and Science. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674527.001.0001.
Mumford, Stephen and Tugby, Matthew. 2013b. “What is the Metaphysics of Science?” in Metaphysics and Science, edited by Stephen Mumford and Matthew Tugby, pp. 3–27. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674527.001.0001.

Further References

Armstrong, David M. 2004. Truth and Truthmakers. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511487552.
Ellis, Brian. 2001. Scientific Essentialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Malzkorn, Wolfgang. 2000. “Begriffliche Analyse und ontologische Reduktion von Eigenschaften.” Metaphysica – special issue 1: 215–230.
Marmodoro, Anna. 2013. “Aristotle’s Hylomorphism Without Reconditioning .” Philosophical Inquiry 37(1–2): 5–22, doi:10.5840/philinquiry2013371/28.
McKitrick, Jennifer. 2013. “Review of Mumford and Anjum (2011a).” Metascience 22.